150 minutes of moderate exercise a week is only 21.4 minutes per day.
That’s it. 21.4 minutes. 👈🏻
What can 21.4 minutes a day do?
Regular, moderate physical activity such as brisk walking can increase life expectancy by several years, even for people who are overweight, a new large study shows.
While higher levels of activity were linked to even longer life expectancies, moderate activity was beneficial, according to the study of people ages 40 and older. The benefit of exercise was seen regardless of people’s weight, age, sex and health conditions such as heart disease and cancer.
For example, obese participants who did moderate exercise for 150 minutes a week lived an average of 2.7 to 3.4 years longer, depending on how obese they were, than those who were obese and did not exercise.
Those who were overweight (but not obese) and did 150 minutes of moderate exercise weekly lived 3.9 years longer those who were overweight and did not exercise.
Normal-weight people who exercised for 150 minutes or more weekly lived about 4.7 years longer than normal-weight people who did not do regular moderate exercise.
“Many individuals in the U.S. are overweight or obese,” and find that reducing their weight is difficult, said study researcher I-Min Lee, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. “Our study shows that by being physically active, even overweight or obese people can increase their life expectancy, compared to someone of the same weight who is not active.”
Here is a link to the article:
https://www.livescience.com/36723-exercise-life-expectancy-overweight-obese.html
So now I will ask you this. How many minutes today have you been checking your phone? Watching Netflix? Been wondering what to do next because you are bored?
21.4 minutes. 👈🏻
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